One Proud Boy described growing desperation among the group’s leaders as Jan. 6 approached and Trump’s efforts to overturn the election sputtered. That’s when they veered toward “all-out revolution,” he said today in the seditious conspiracy trial.
“I wanted to be there to witness what I believed was the next American revolution,” the Proud Boys' Jeremy Bertino told jurors. | Luis M. Alvarez/AP PhotoA top lieutenant of the Proud Boys’ chairman, Enrique Tarrio, described on Wednesday a growing desperation among the group’s leaders as Jan. 6, 2021, approached and then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results sputtered.
Now, the group’s leaders — Tarrio and Joe Biggs of Florida, Ethan Nordean of Seattle, Zachary Rehl of Philadelphia and Dominic Pezzola of New York — are facing the gravest charges to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “I thought I was watching history,” Bertino recalled. “I thought it was historical. I thought it was a revolution starting.”
“We failed,” he told other Proud Boys in various Telegram chats, after Congress had returned to continue certifying Biden’s victory. He lamented that the rioters caused mayhem simply to “take selfies in Pelosi’s office.”“I’m done fellas,” Bertino said in a voice message to the group. “In case you couldn’t fucking tell. I’m done. I didn’t take a knife in the fucking — in the lungs to watch the power be given right the fuck back to these evil cocksuckers. We need fucking war.
Throughout Bertino’s testimony — his second day on the stand — Prosecutors homed in on messages sent among Bertino and other Proud Boys leaders discussing the prospect of violence on Jan. 6, and noted repeatedly that Tarrio and other defendants never pushed back or suggested violence wasn’t the goal.
For example, Bertino described in court — but not to the select committee — an extensive Telegram chat with Tarrio on Jan. 6, while both men were watching the riot unfold from afar. Bertino described a feeling of pride at seeing the Proud Boys help lead the way into the Capitol and a pang of jealousy for being absent.
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